All Things Yoga Blog

Flexibility, balance, increased strength … these commonly touted yoga benefits may have initially attracted you to yoga, but I dug a little deeper to unearth some surprising and not universally-known health benefits to a regular yoga practice.

Recently I’ve been attending classes at an Ashtanga-style studio. Ashtanga is a school of yoga, and the first few classes, I didn’t notice much of a difference between Ashtanga and typical “vinyasa flow”. Honestly, I thought Ashtanga was just the name of the studio. Then I started to notice the subtle (and not-so-subtle) differences...